Title:
I’ve Got You Under My Skin
Review: I read this book on a bus to New Orleans from Minnesota with a
bunch of high school choir students – the bus was noisy but I found I was able
to concentrate on the story line as I worked at unraveling the mystery presented
in this book. It was fast enough to keep
me interested in the book and not in the conversations all around me. Teenagers can be loud. I did have to answer a few questions from the
needy teens here and there also glancing out the windows to see where we were
along the way-but I read and enjoyed this book along the way.
The
mystery was multi-leveled with many people in questions as the book went
along. I would suggest this to anyone
who enjoys a good mystery. I did not
solve the mystery but at the same time could see how the person did it – I was
still a bit confused at the end with what happened thinking maybe I had missed
something in all the noise and shuffle on the bus – but I now believe that the
murder was not completely ones persons doing.
ISBN: 9781476749068
Page
Count: 320
Quick
Review: 4 out 5 stars –
Why I
Read this Title: Sent by the publisher for review.
Synopsis:
When Laurie Moran’s husband was brutally murdered, only three-year-old
Timmy saw the face of his father’s killer. Five years later his piercing blue
eyes still haunt Timmy’s dreams. Laurie is haunted by more—the killer’s threat
to her son as he fled the scene: “Tell your mother she’s next, then it’s your
turn . . .”
Now
Laurie is dealing with murder again, this time as the producer of a true-crime,
cold-case television show. The series will launch with the twenty-year-old
unsolved murder of Betsy Powell. Betsy, a socialite, was found suffocated in
her bed after a gala celebrating the graduation of her daughter and three
friends. The sensational murder was news nationwide. Reopening the case in its
lavish setting and with the cooperation of the surviving guests that night,
Laurie is sure to have a hit on her hands. But when the estranged friends begin
filming, it becomes clear each is hiding secrets . . . small and large.
And a
pair of blue eyes is watching events unfold, too . . .
Author
Information: Mary
Theresa Eleanor Higgins Clark Conheeney, best known as Mary Higgins Clark, (b
December 24, 1927 in the Bronx, New York) is an American author of suspense
novels. Each of her twenty-four suspense novels has been a bestseller in the
United States and various European countries, and all of her novels remain in
print as of 2007, with her debut suspense novel, Where Are The Children, in its
seventy-fifth printing.
Clark
began writing at an early age. After several years working as a secretary and
copy editor, Clark spent a year as a stewardess for Pan-American Airlines
before leaving her job to marry and start a family. She supplemented the
family's income by writing short stories. After her husband died in 1959, Clark
worked for many years writing four-minute radio scripts, until her agent
convinced her to try writing novels. Her debut novel, a fictionalized account
of the life of George Washington, did not sell well, and she decided to
leverage her love of mystery/suspense novels. Her suspense novels became very
popular, and as of 2007 her books have sold more than 80 million copies in the
United States alone.
Her
work dwells primarily on a central theme: the psychological trauma endured and
overcome by her strong female characters. Clark, known as the "Queen of
Suspense", was also the inspiration for the Mary Higgins Clark Award,
given by the Mystery Writers of America. She is the mother of author Carol
Higgins Clark and formerly the mother-in-law of author Mary Jane Clark
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